First announced last year at the Oculus Connect event, Arktika.1 comes courtesy of 4A Games, the company behind the well-regarded Metro first-person shooter franchise. Designed around the Oculus Touch motion-tracked controllers - making them a requirement, which is bad news for early adopters of the Oculus Rift who have yet to splash out on the now-mandatory controller set - Arktika.1 is claimed by its creators to 'offer the most impressive visuals ever seen in VR' thanks to the latest revision of the in-house 4A Engine game engine.

In the game, the player is placed in the head of a character seeking to protect a colony located in the wastelands of Russia from attack following a disaster which has plunged the planet into a new ice age. Players are able to switch the game between standing still on-rails and room-scale modes, 4A Games has confirmed.

The game is due to launch on October 10th, with a promotional pre-order price of £19.99 via the Oculus storefront.